It's scary to think that we are moving into this direction: I can see how in the next few years politicians and judges will use LLMs as neutral experts.
And all in the hand of a few big tech corporations...
And all in the hand of a few big tech corporations...
The open source, local LLM community is absolutely buzzing right now.
Yes, the big companies are making the models, but enough of them are open weights that they can be fine tuned and run however you like.
I think LLMs genuinely do present an opportunity to be neutral experts, or at the least neutral third parties. If they're run in completely transparent ways, they may be preferable to humans in some circumstances.
And then we're right back to "trusting expert human beings" again.
With good prompting, the SOTA models already act in ways I think most reasonable people would agree with, and that's without trying to build this specifically for that use case.
And how long is that going to last? This is a well known playbook at this point, we'd be better off if we didn't fall for it yet again - it's comical at this point. Sooner or later they'll lock the ecosystem down, take all the free stuff away and demand to extract the market value out of the work they used to "graciously" provide for free to build an audience and market share.
You can't take the free stuff away. It's on my hard drive.
They can stop releasing them, but local models aren't going anywhere.
Now we finally have a tool where all of you can prove every day how strong/smart/funny/foo you are (not actually). How was life even possible without?
So, don't be so pessimistic. ;)
While also noting that "neutral" is not well-defined, I agree. They will be used as if they were.
We humans are very good at rejecting any information that doesn’t confirm our priors or support our political goals.
Like, if ChatGPT says (say) vaccines are good/bad, I expect the other side will simply attack and reject it as misinformation, conspiracy, and similar.